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What's the game design goal here? Do you want there to be diminishing distribution of cities or not? Is there just going to be continuous adding of more of these projects arbitrarily? What's the end goal? Is this just another band-aid for the symptom or is it actually tackling the cause?

Cool, another punishment for the longest running and most loyal players, thanks. "Everyone who hasn't been loyal and stayed with the game for a long time gets a free city! Our incentive structure works!"

WE SHALL STUMBLE ON TO THE END, WE SHALL BRAWL IN THE PUBS, WE SHALL CLASH OVER PINTS AND KEBABS, WE SHALL BANTER WITH SLURRED SPEECH AND WOBBLY STRENGTH IN THE BEER GARDEN, WE SHALL DEFEND OUR TEAM, NO MATTER HOW MANY PINTS IT TAKES, WE SHALL FIGHT BY THE POOL TABLES, WE SHALL FIGHT NEAR THE DARTBOARDS, WE SHALL FIGHT IN THE LOOS AND IN THE ALLEYWAYS, WE SHALL FIGHT IN THE KARAOKE CORNER; WE SHALL NEVER REMEMBER, AND EVEN IF, WHICH I CAN'T COMPREHEND FOR A SOBER SECOND, THIS PUB OR A LARGE PART OF IT WERE CONQUERED AND DEVOID OF BEER, THEN OUR MATES BEYOND THE STREETS, FUELED AND RALLIED BY THE LOCAL OFF-LICENSE, WOULD CARRY ON THE CHAOS, UNTIL, IN THE BARTENDER'S GOOD GRACE, THE NEXT ROUND, WITH ALL ITS POWER AND MIGHT, STEPS FORTH TO THE REFRESHMENT AND THE INTOXICATION OF THE OLD.

What if the player doesn't want autonomy? What if the player has a pure net-positive build of food and uranium only? What if it's a question of continuing to play the game occasionally or not at all? There's still clerical work to be done with or without Auctus. There's no one size fits all, my friend. We all want different things from the game

Some people would rather not have to manually calculate hundreds of nations net revenue. If you want to, that's fine, no one is taking that choice away from you. And to make the insinuation that the only fun parts of PnW is clerical work is quite sad. The best part of PnW isn't any of the mechanics of the game, imo, but the community surrounding it. Also this sort of thing has been around for almost literally a decade and PnW still exists The last version had that feature but it was cut in Audax, unfortunately

Thank you for your input, traveler. You had the same note last time, I think. I believe the issue when it came to resource usage when fueling power was that it actually works as steps or stairs, so one can't just say, oil_power * 1.2, and there's also the matter of keeping track of what's actually providing the power and how much infra to be powered is left. If you have an alternative, it'd be nice to see your refactor How about this? cityInfraCounter = city['infrastructure'] while cityInfraCounter > 0: if city['wind_power'] > 0: cityInfraCounter -= 250 city['wind_power'] -= 1 elif city['nuclear_power'] > 0: cityInfraCounter -= 1000 nation_net_rev['uranium'] -= 1.2 city['nuclear_power'] -= 1 if cityInfraCounter > 0: cityInfraCounter -= 1000 nation_net_rev['uranium'] -= 1.2 city['nuclear_power'] -= 1 elif city['oil_power'] > 0: decrease = min(cityInfraCounter, 500) cityInfraCounter -= decrease nation_net_rev['oil'] -= (decrease / 100) * 1.2 city['oil_power'] -= 1 elif city['coal_power'] > 0: decrease = min(cityInfraCounter, 500) cityInfraCounter -= decrease nation_net_rev['coal'] -= (decrease / 100) * 1.2 city['coal_power'] -= 1 elif city['nuclear_power'] + city['oil_power'] + city['coal_power'] + city['wind_power'] <= 0: cityInfraCounter = 0

This will hopefully make the game feel less like work, but if you're referring to coding this, it's just a hobby and it's fun, so it's not work at all

An old version that was almost immediately locked was posted, yes. This is a new version that will hopefully persist as it is more compliant

Though that being said, if you have better alternatives, do share and feel free to submit merges on github. I mostly just hacked together the first Auctus and only replaced the stuff that needed to for compliance

Welcome to PnW

You getting the first post on both threads is impressive

You thought you could dispel the CURSE? You can't escape CHAOS! The DARK GODS are inescapable! Your precious order is only fragile momentary reprieve! Chaos is eternal and always licking at your heels Terminus Est Presents Auctus Audax Okay Cool, but What is Auctus Audax? Auctus Audax, Auctus for short, is a python script that, given an alliance, tax bracket, and various parameters from the user, can calculate the exact amount of resource usage for each involved nation and then semi-automatically send raws to them for the asked for number of days worth of production. It can send a lump sum or top off nations, as in, a lump sum of say five days of resources or see how much resources a nation has on hand and then send it however much it needs to have five days worth of resources. It can also be set to send what I believe to be a fairly configurable warchest, it does a fairly basic but solid automated audit, and a few other miscellaneous features sprinkled in Why Are You Doing This? It is my belief that the entry into forming a well functioning 100/100 alliance is either scripting knowledge or a mass amount of man power, and I hope this lowers the barrier of entry, gives people more options, and therefore makes for a more enjoyable and diverse ecosystem of gameplay. I also hope to equalize the alliance environment as many of the top alliances utilize similar scripts already, and I want to empower the people so to say. I hope this gets some people interested in the area of (admittedly poopy) scripting and also saves time for the community if they've been doing raw and WC distribution manually. No one should have to suffer through that, and instead the machines should take the wheel. Also, there's perhaps a faint hope that the mass proliferation of this poorly optimized script spurring a certain guy named Alex into adding vanilla functionality for previously mentioned distributions What's the Difference Between the First Auctus and this Audax? Audax tries to be as compliant as possible. There's no more scraping as it relies heavily on the v3 API, and each bank send requires confirmation from the user Where Can I Get it and How Does it Work? Instructions for both of these questions is on the (still) hastily constructed github page: https://github.com/LatorChaos/AuctusAudax This was done like two months ago, but I was too lazy to release until now Please note that I will offer almost no support Oh, and TEST announces it's joining 'O Fortuna as an unofficial and invisible member Good luck and thank you

Requiring a vote in every category only incentivizes picking something at random

An end of an era

Don't worry, it's all compartmentalized. The calculator and tool are two entirely separate things

Basically yes. It's a setup once and then run once a week sort of deal and then everyone only has to login for bonuses and war

We all love NPO, some people just don't realize it You're totally right on the config stuff and comments, but I mostly wanted to get this out as soon as possible, and I wanted to make sure the obvious debugging places were flagged in some fashion and equip people with the methods of how I bang on it until it works again Also, this is an alliance announcement from TEST, specifically the Dark Mechanicus branch

Hail comrades! To bring everyone up to speed, I'm a **** scientist recruited by NPO during Operation Paperclip, or if you're from NPO, Operation Osoaviakhim. During my time at NPO, I was forced, under threat of being turned into a LGBT using NPO's patented Rainbow Ray, to develop and code various instruments of war. Yes, I can confirm Roqnet was a real thing, and we were one nod of the head away from cyber-guinea-pig-boots marching down every street instead of mindless-manwha-enthusiasts marching down every street. But I digress. Today isn't about Roqnet, but a project I titled Auctus. In NPO I made something that could calculate the entire game's production within a <1% inaccuracy margin, and this slowly turned into something that could calculate an alliance's production, tax bracket, and nation and eventually had the functionality of being able to send the exact amount of needed resources to meet production demands, but that didn't happen in NPO and more in my next alliance which was... Hm... Maybe this isn't a NPO gift. I mean, I'm probably not even qualified to speak on NPO's behalf... So... Uh... In the name of the Dark Gods, Chaos, and the True Machine Spirits. I release Auctus onto the world! Okay Cool, but What is Auctus Really? Auctus is a python script that, given an alliance, tax bracket, and supply parameters from the user, can calculate the exact amount of resource usage for each involved nation and then automatically send raws to them for the asked for number of days worth of production. It can send a lump sum or top off nations, as in, a lump sum of say five days of resources or see how much resources a nation has on hand and then send it however much it needs to have five days worth of resources. It can also be set to send what I believe to be a fairly configurable warchest, it does a fairly basic but solid automated audit, and a few other miscellaneous features sprinkled in Why Are You Doing This? It is my belief that the entry into forming a well functioning 100/100 alliance is either scripting knowledge or a mass amount of man power, and I hope this lowers the barrier of entry, gives people more options, and therefore makes for a more enjoyable ecosystem of gameplay. I hope this gets some people interested in the area of (admittedly poopy) scripting and also saves people the time if they've been doing raw and WC distribution manually. No one should have to suffer through that and the machines should take the wheel. Also, there's perhaps a faint hope that the mass proliferation of this poorly optimized script spurring a certain guy named Alex into adding vanilla functionality for previously mentioned distributions Where Can I Get it and How Does it Work? Instructions for both of these things is on the hastily constructed github page: https://github.com/LatorChaos/Auctus Please note that I will offer minimal support right now and almost no support after a few weeks Good luck and thank you

No, in fact we should get rid of all gambling and mini games

I'D RATHER DIE THAN LET CATA DATE ASM

Dear NpO Please disband and merge into Black K***hts Thank you

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE, make this the precedent for all future wars VIctor names war with mod/admin veto/arbitration powers seems like a good official unofficial rule

WTF should just disband and merge into Black K***hts already

tfw you're a test member and you go check out the discord of your new found allies Oh yeah, this is an unholy alliance, and I'm liking it

What's wrong, did Rose attack your secret MDP partners?